Major employer will retain 125 jobs with LEDA investment

McKINLEY COUNTY— Cabinet Secretary Alicia J. Keyes announced Oct. 27 that a long-time paper factory in McKinley County will receive economic assistance from the state so it can install new equipment and remain in business for the next decade, retaining at least 125 well-paying jobs.

McKinley Paper has been reliant on the Escalante Generating Station for steam power. The 253-megawatt, coal-fired power plant near Prewitt, operated by Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association, closed at the end of August as the facility exhausted its remaining on-site fuel supply.

Through the Economic Development Department, the State of...

A semi-truck failed to stop as it traveled east through a construction zone on Interstate-40 near Gallup Oct. 23, according to McKinley County Sheriff’s Office.

As a result, the white Volvo semi truck driven by Paramveer Singh, of Ceres, Calif. crashed into three other vehicles — a blue Kenworth semi-truck, a blue Toyota Tacoma towing a trailer, and and a silver Chevy Tahoe.

The two people that died at the scene were in the Tahoe and were identified as  identified as Michael Lee Rathbun, 63, of Centennial, Colo, and Kimberly Ann Cloud, 61, of unidentified city in Colo.

MCSO Sgt. Tammy Houghtaling arrived at the scene of the collision near the 4 mile marker after 2...

FBI investigating officer-involved shooting on Laguna Pueblo

The FBI is investigating an officer-involved shooting that occurred on Laguna Pueblo, N.M., on Oct. 23.

Details are sparse, but in its Oct. 27 release, the FBI said an adult has been taken to University of New Mexico Hospital but their condition was not made available as of Oct. 28.

The Cibola County Sheriff’s Office deputy who was involved was not hurt.

The Bureau of Indian Affairs and New Mexico State Police are assisting with the investigation.

Mescalero man charged with aggravated sexual abuse of a child

ALBUQUERQUE — Troy Douglas Blaylock, Sr., 57, of Mescalero, N.M., and an enrolled member of the Mescalero Apache...

STATEWIDE - New Mexico State Police will be conducting sobriety checkpoints; saturation patrols; and registration, insurance and driver’s license checkpoints in all New Mexico counties during the month of November.

“We are bringing awareness to these events in an effort to reduce alcohol-related fatalities through continued media attention and intensive advertising. These checkpoints are helping to change society’s attitude about drinking and driving,” an NMSP release stated.

“Hundreds of lives could be saved each year if every driver had the courage to make the right decision not to drink and drive,” the release continued.

The release states the checkpoints are being...